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[CITE: 48USC1423b]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                            CHAPTER 8A--GUAM
 
                     SUBCHAPTER III--THE LEGISLATURE
 
Sec. 1423b. Selection and qualification of members; officers; 
        rules and regulations; quorum
        
    The legislature shall be the judge of the selection and 
qualification of its own members. It shall choose from its members its 
own officers, determine its rules and procedure, not inconsistent with 
this chapter, and keep a journal. The quorum of the legislature shall 
consist of a simple majority of its members. No bill shall become a law 
unless it shall have been passed at a meeting, at which a quorum was 
present, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the members present 
and voting, which vote shall be by yeas and nays.

(Aug. 1, 1950, ch. 512, Sec. 12, 64 Stat. 388; Pub. L. 90-497, 
Sec. 6(b), Sept. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 846; Pub. L. 105-291, Sec. 3, Oct. 
27, 1998, 112 Stat. 2785.)


                               Amendments

    1998--Pub. L. 105-291 substituted ``a simple majority'' for 
``eleven''.
    1968--Pub. L. 90-497 inserted a quorum requirement, provided that a 
quorum of the legislature consist of eleven of its members, and made 
presence of a quorum requisite to passage of a law.


                    Effective Date of 1968 Amendment

    Section 6(b) of Pub. L. 90-497 provided that the amendment made by 
that section is effective on date of enactment of Pub. L. 90-497, which 
was approved Sept. 11, 1968.
